Nilutpal Thakur
Focus on food processing, fisheries, diary in interim budget
In the interim budget 2024-2025 tabled on 1 February 2024, Union minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman laid emphasis on agriculture and food processing, fisheries,...
India’s grain and pulses – balancing yield and nutrition
As climate change wreaks havoc, and an uneven and inconsistent rainfall pattern puts farmers in distress, concerns over crop production and food security take...
The LuLu Mall and Hypermarket in Kochi — a packager’s dreamland
Hypermarkets and supermarkets are commonplace in all modern cities. But this is one hypermarket that beats them all – at least on the face...
#BeatPlasticPollution – All words and little action
This World Environment Day on 5 June, the theme was #BeatPlasticPollution. Debates were held across forums, brands flaunted their 'sustainable alternatives', the media went...
The Indian rice export ban
Visuals of people – mainly Indians – lining up in stores in the US with dozens of bags of rice went viral toward the...
International Year of Millets 2023
There’s a new, old superfood in town – millets.
Once a staple for farmers in many parts of India, and the world, millets – essentially...
Amul’s RS Sodhi to join Reliance Retail
RS Sodhi, former managing director of dairy giant Amul who had stepped down from his position early in January in a sudden turn of...
Climate change, extreme weather and food security
In our last editorial, we referred to the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Global Food Policy 2022 report, which estimates that climate change could...
Operation flood 2.0 – the new revolution in milk packaging
In the 1970s, the white revolution, or operation flood as it was popularly known, transformed India from a milk-deficient nation to the world’s largest...
Food crises may increase without systemic change: FAO
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that the world’s ability to nourish its burgeoning population is under threat...
